Just want to say I was a regular Beezer reading from c.1976-78 & had some on & off before that, very much covering the period the Cracker merged in. Did have a good collection but my parents made me burn a load or give to jumble sales (esp after I gave up comics for a bit, until I started reading Look-In). Shouldn't have done that! Can remember Blubba being on central pages & pedro The pesky Parrott, both sacrificed for Cracker.
Incidentally, I can vagueley remember a character called Dan McClue being on the colour central pages for a time - he appeared in the 1977 annual & was about a bald bungling PI, assited by the more competent Denny. Anyone any memories of this?
I have a zillion more memories to come...
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stevezodiac
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I think Dan McClue was drawn by Malcolm Judge who drew the Badd Lads and Billy Whiz among others. I put a huge bundle of Beezers from the period you mention on ebay a year or so back but they didn't sell so still have them. They are doubles I picked up along the way.
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I was just having a thought re: Mal Judge & The Badd Lads:
Did soemone else occasionally stand-in for Judge on occasional weeks of The Badd Lads & Numskulls. It's just that soemtimes there would be a couple of odd occasional weeks where the artist/artwork would temporarily differ & the characters would have a - kind of squarer - appearance. Or were these perhaps reprints of earlier strips?
This came to mind when I thought on one of my earliest memories of a Beezer strip c.1973-74 - It was a Badd Lads one where Boss vows to steal from a Colonel's mansion guarded by a fierce dog; Knuck & Fingers are sceptical & say he'll never do it. So Boss befriends & feeds the dog each night & then when he brekas into the house he steps on the cat, wakes the colonel & gets arrested with Knuck & Fingers falling abouit laughing behind the fence.
It;s th eimage that stuck in my mind of the close-up expression on Boss's face after he's stepped on the cat with the Colonel racing downstairs with his gun - Boss is sweating with a real look of fear on the face. Good artwork that is.
Did soemone else occasionally stand-in for Judge on occasional weeks of The Badd Lads & Numskulls. It's just that soemtimes there would be a couple of odd occasional weeks where the artist/artwork would temporarily differ & the characters would have a - kind of squarer - appearance. Or were these perhaps reprints of earlier strips?
This came to mind when I thought on one of my earliest memories of a Beezer strip c.1973-74 - It was a Badd Lads one where Boss vows to steal from a Colonel's mansion guarded by a fierce dog; Knuck & Fingers are sceptical & say he'll never do it. So Boss befriends & feeds the dog each night & then when he brekas into the house he steps on the cat, wakes the colonel & gets arrested with Knuck & Fingers falling abouit laughing behind the fence.
It;s th eimage that stuck in my mind of the close-up expression on Boss's face after he's stepped on the cat with the Colonel racing downstairs with his gun - Boss is sweating with a real look of fear on the face. Good artwork that is.
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I just had to mention another early memory - it's of a Smiffy strip in colour when it was located behind P D & H on the back pages (Smiffy later relegated to red & white on the inner pages following the Cracker merger).
It's one where his class get a new teacher who's bald with a tache; Smiffy is cheeky to him, gets an inkwell knocked onto the teacher's head (who goes "Grr...you...you") and knocks piles of paper out of his hands when leading an end of class bell charge, Smiffy then looks forward to football the next day only to discover the teacher plays too. Smiffy goes in goal where the teacher blasts the ball into Smiffy's stomach & a big OOOOFFFF! fills the top of the frame.
Don't make em like that anymore!
It's one where his class get a new teacher who's bald with a tache; Smiffy is cheeky to him, gets an inkwell knocked onto the teacher's head (who goes "Grr...you...you") and knocks piles of paper out of his hands when leading an end of class bell charge, Smiffy then looks forward to football the next day only to discover the teacher plays too. Smiffy goes in goal where the teacher blasts the ball into Smiffy's stomach & a big OOOOFFFF! fills the top of the frame.
Don't make em like that anymore!
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I was just remembering a feature of the Beezer:
Does anyone remember the teasers for next week's strips at the bottom of the pages - It usually was in rhyme (the phrase "alas alack" used a few quite times I remember) and oftern had the words "Next Week" in bold.
Here's three I remember:
From Young Sid:
"A big mistake with a slice of cream cake next week"
" A big samation at the railway station next week"
And from Baby Crockett:
"See baby go to a fruit and veg show next week"
I think these largely stuck in my mind as I was curuious to know the outcomes but never got to - as my comic-hating academic Stepford parents made excuses & pretended to forget to buy them for me! (the only newsagent in my village was a comic hater too).
Any memories?
Does anyone remember the teasers for next week's strips at the bottom of the pages - It usually was in rhyme (the phrase "alas alack" used a few quite times I remember) and oftern had the words "Next Week" in bold.
Here's three I remember:
From Young Sid:
"A big mistake with a slice of cream cake next week"
" A big samation at the railway station next week"
And from Baby Crockett:
"See baby go to a fruit and veg show next week"
I think these largely stuck in my mind as I was curuious to know the outcomes but never got to - as my comic-hating academic Stepford parents made excuses & pretended to forget to buy them for me! (the only newsagent in my village was a comic hater too).
Any memories?
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DavidKW wrote: " A big samation at the railway station next week"
This one's a bit puzzling. What's a samation?
(Sure it wasn't dalmation?!)
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It's a Fantastic looking Blog! Well done! I have just got my `Sparky File` full with Photos now and I'll be posting it to Rab (ISpyssshguy) as Rab can do Blog's etc in a way that I can't! (I'm pretty hopeless trying to set them up _ I must admit!
All the best with the Beezer Blog! I used to have a few in the 1960s - but sadly, I could only afford (On pocket money) so many comics and I stuck with the Sparky and Dandy which sadly meant I could only afford very few Beezer or Toppers!
All the best with the Beezer Blog! I used to have a few in the 1960s - but sadly, I could only afford (On pocket money) so many comics and I stuck with the Sparky and Dandy which sadly meant I could only afford very few Beezer or Toppers!
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The Broons and Oor Wullie still have rhymes at the top of the page for the current story and another rhyme at the bottom for next week's.
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Samation (I think that's how you spell it - comes of having no education!) means confusion.
I remember asking my father what it meant & he explained - this coming from a comic hater who thought reading them was bad for me!
I kept reminding parnet sto get it as I wanted to see outcome of this one, but they made excuses not to get it!
I remember asking my father what it meant & he explained - this coming from a comic hater who thought reading them was bad for me!
I kept reminding parnet sto get it as I wanted to see outcome of this one, but they made excuses not to get it!
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There's no such word and I can't imagine which word you are thinking of.DavidKW wrote:Samation (I think that's how you spell it - comes of having no education!) means confusion.
Agitation at the railway station would work!
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The word might well have been sensation, giving A big sensation at the railway station next week.Raven wrote: There's no such word and I can't imagine which word you are thinking of. Agitation at the railway station would work!
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Possibly it was sensation... unless the Beezer made up a word for that word (unlikely though).
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Collecting my old Beezers again!
I regularily read the Beezer between 1975 and 1981 when aged 7 to 14 and loved it every Tuesday when it was delivered with my dads newspaper!
I made it last until the weekend! Now, aged 44, I'm trying to buy the whole lot again bit by bit and having alot of fun!
I also want to get hold of older copies before my time, ie from 1956, so my complete collection should be about 1300 copies! I want them to be decent copies, ie not torn. I have around 200 so far, mainly from ebay.
Does anyone know what sort of price I would have to pay for 1956 copies, ie the first 20 or so issues, and how many are around?
I made it last until the weekend! Now, aged 44, I'm trying to buy the whole lot again bit by bit and having alot of fun!
I also want to get hold of older copies before my time, ie from 1956, so my complete collection should be about 1300 copies! I want them to be decent copies, ie not torn. I have around 200 so far, mainly from ebay.Does anyone know what sort of price I would have to pay for 1956 copies, ie the first 20 or so issues, and how many are around?
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A while back I bought an old Beezer from 1973 - the earliest memory I have of this comic was from then.
The one strip I couldn't re-visualise until I bought was "The Fiddlesticks". Now I remember - very surreal!
The adventure strip about the giant Robotic Ants was good - from what I saw & remember this was one of their best adventure efforts (was replaced by "The Space Kids" which I didn't think much of as a child but re-appreciated thanks to Classics From The Comics - then came Mr.Flippy, then Mr.Licko, neither which I rate as much then & still now (I mean picking lollipos off the floor & licking them - eurgh!)
But what really impressed me was Malcolm Judge's Dan McClue in the centre, as I loved the way many gags are practically machine-gunned - such as when Dan & sidekick Denny are talking walking to the Police Station and someone in the background sees the Police Notice board & says "but they always do. It's what they're paid for".
And the strip ends with Denny saying "You'll have to wait next week Dan we've run out of strip".
Beezer was very underrated - well-drawn brilliant characters & good writing.
The one strip I couldn't re-visualise until I bought was "The Fiddlesticks". Now I remember - very surreal!
The adventure strip about the giant Robotic Ants was good - from what I saw & remember this was one of their best adventure efforts (was replaced by "The Space Kids" which I didn't think much of as a child but re-appreciated thanks to Classics From The Comics - then came Mr.Flippy, then Mr.Licko, neither which I rate as much then & still now (I mean picking lollipos off the floor & licking them - eurgh!)
But what really impressed me was Malcolm Judge's Dan McClue in the centre, as I loved the way many gags are practically machine-gunned - such as when Dan & sidekick Denny are talking walking to the Police Station and someone in the background sees the Police Notice board & says "but they always do. It's what they're paid for".
And the strip ends with Denny saying "You'll have to wait next week Dan we've run out of strip".
Beezer was very underrated - well-drawn brilliant characters & good writing.
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I've now got just over a QUARTER of the entire Beezer collection! (only interested in the big A3 size 1956 to 1981) .
Collected 350 so far, the majority in the mid-seventies, but some early additions as well, which of course I have never read before!!!
I've got number ONE no. 2 , 6, 8, 10, 12 to 17 , also some from 1958 and they are quite colourful and interesting to read, my favourite is Pop, Dick and Harry! Of course when gaps are filled then I can read the serials! I'm going to have to have a break from buying them for a while - and take the time out to actually look inside some of them more! As said above, the artwork is brilliant, and stays that way throughout untill the comic went small and ruined the image! If you look at the artwork of the Dandy today it is very bland and the stories poor, scratchy and over-the-top! And its not because I'm older now because I can look back at my old Beezers and still laugh at the stories! What do others think?
On another note does anyone have any tips on looking after old comics, how to store them, etc, to preserve them? At the same time I like to have them handy to look at!
Collected 350 so far, the majority in the mid-seventies, but some early additions as well, which of course I have never read before!!!
I've got number ONE no. 2 , 6, 8, 10, 12 to 17 , also some from 1958 and they are quite colourful and interesting to read, my favourite is Pop, Dick and Harry! Of course when gaps are filled then I can read the serials! I'm going to have to have a break from buying them for a while - and take the time out to actually look inside some of them more! As said above, the artwork is brilliant, and stays that way throughout untill the comic went small and ruined the image! If you look at the artwork of the Dandy today it is very bland and the stories poor, scratchy and over-the-top! And its not because I'm older now because I can look back at my old Beezers and still laugh at the stories! What do others think?
On another note does anyone have any tips on looking after old comics, how to store them, etc, to preserve them? At the same time I like to have them handy to look at!